Bamban Mayor Alice Guo —Marianne Bermudez
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday doubled down on his declare that Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo is a foreigner, insisting that she had beforehand used her Chinese language passport in getting into and in a foreign country when she was nonetheless a young person.
Gatchalian stated he was satisfied that Guo’s actual identify is Guo Hua Ping, a Chinese language citizen who arrived within the nation in 2003, as proven by the paperwork he had secured from the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and the Board of Investments (BOI).
He was referring to copies of Hua Ping’s Chinese language passport and a particular investor’s resident visa (SIRV) that the BOI had supposedly granted to her and her household.
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In accordance with the lawmaker, these paperwork would again suspicions that Guo was not a natural-born Filipino citizen as she had claimed.
“I’m satisfied that Guo Hua Ping is Alice Guo. They’re only one and the identical,” Gatchalian stated in an interview with dwPM.
The truth is, he stated, the controversial mayor had alternately used her Philippine and Chinese language passports in her travels overseas between 2008 and 2011.
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He stated that Hua Ping’s journey data additionally confirmed that she usually flew with Lin Wenyi, whom Gatchalian suspected was Guo’s organic mom.
Documentary proof
“These data got here from the (BI). We didn’t make these up,” stated the senator, who had additionally beforehand revealed Guo’s alleged hyperlink with the unlawful Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) in her city.
“She used her Chinese language passport at instances. She would additionally use her (Philippine) passport typically. She solely used her (Philippine) passport in leaving the nation solely after 2011,” he added.
Gatchalian stated they stumbled upon the paperwork that would show Guo’s actual identification whereas they had been in search of the journey data of her Chinese language father, Jian Zhong Guo, who finally used Angelito as his Filipino identify.
Primarily based on the BOI data, he stated that Jian Zhong and Lin had utilized for an SIRV for them and their kids after they arrived within the Philippines in 2003.
Among the many paperwork that the state company had submitted to him had been Hua Ping’s passport and SIRV, together with paperwork of her supposed mother and father and siblings.
“While you apply for a visa, you’re required to current your most up-to-date image. And when you take a look at it, the photograph of Guo Hua Ping appears to be like precisely the identical as (the mayor’s),” Gatchalian stated.
He stated this might clarify her failure to reply even the essential questions on her private background, together with these pertaining to her childhood, throughout the Senate listening to.
“That she needed to deceive the Senate proves that she didn’t develop up right here as a result of she was born in China,” Gatchalian pressured.
“In the event you take a look at the entire image, (you’d see) that we had been deceived,” he stated. “Think about {that a} faux Filipino was in a position to run as mayor. And if we fail to detect this, she may later function (lawmaker) or governor.”
As mirrored in her SIRV, Gatchalian stated a 13-year-old Hua Ping arrived within the nation on Jan. 12, 2003. The doc recognized Lin as her mom.
Opposite to info
Guo, nonetheless, maintained that she is a Filipino as she stood pat on her earlier remarks that these questioning her citizenship ought to current proof supporting their allegations.
In an announcement, her attorneys stated the mayor was “ready to deal with these allegations totally and transparently.”
“She even pressured the purpose that ‘he who alleges should show,’” her attorneys stated.
They famous that the declare that Guo is a Chinese language nationwide “runs counter to the truth that she is required, and certainly secured, a Chinese language visa as customer of stated nation every time she visits China.”
“Mayor Guo asserts her Filipino citizenship primarily based on her birthright, cultural ties and steady residency within the Philippines. Her perception in her Filipino identification has been constant, supported by her energetic participation in native enterprise and neighborhood life in addition to the folks she interacts with,” they stated.
As well as, her attorneys stated that “many neighborhood members” have expressed their intention to concern sworn affidavits to show that Guo is a Filipino.
“Authorized defenses for her nationality embrace birthright citizenship having been born by a Filipino mom out of wedlock and the popularity of Filipino citizenship by Philippine authorities, together with the issuance of a delivery certificates and a Philippine passport, amongst others,” they identified.